Vista look alike sidebar for XP

Sidebar is a major feature in Windows Vista which boosts your personal productivity by providing instant access to gadgets—a wide variety of engaging, easy-to-use, and customizable mini-applications that offer information at a glance and provide easy access to frequently used tools. For those who want to enjoy the Vista look alike sidebar in Windows XP please check these links:

Thoosje Vista Sidebarthoosje has released a new version of his nice looking sidebar for Windows XP users which looks very similar to Vista's sidebar.Download: Thoosje Vista SidebarView: Screenshot

Yahoo Widgets SidebarSidePanel is a skinnable Widget made by Richard Kyle which allows users to add a panel to their screen so that Widgets may be placed on top of it. Similar to the Windows Vista Sidebar.Download: Yahoo Widgets SidebarView: Screenshot

AveDesk SidebarA simple guide to use AveDesk for adding shadow under Taskbar. You can do the same for adding Vista style sidebar to your desktop.View: The guide

Original Vista Sidebar Ported to XPThe original Windows Vista sidebar and it's gadgets have been ported to Windows XP (unofficially) but the sidebar.exe is being treated as a warez so distribution is not permitted here.For those who has Vista, here's a small guide about how to get it running it on Windows XP.Download: Patch and the guideView: Discussion thread 1View: Discussion thread 2

eXP SidebareXP is a sidebar for Windows XP which is written in C#. It imitates the Vista sidebar's look & feel. This program is in developing stage right now.View: eXP sidebar

Desktop SidebarDesktop Sidebar provides you with instant access to the information you most desire by grabbing data from your PC and the internet. The result is a dynamic visual display you configure and control. Lots of plugins/panels and skins make it one of the most populat sidebar app.Download: Desktop SidebarView: Screenshot

SmartBarXPThis sidebar can be configured to display interactive panels known as 'panes'. These panes include media players, slideshow and image viewing panes, a virtual desktop manager, and live news, weather and stock feeds to mention but a few. The panes can be repositioned on the bar, and scrolled if the bar becomes too full. The bar can also be host to extra sections, which include a recycle bin, explorer shortcuts, and taskbar replacement sections (start button, taskbar buttons and system tray sections).Download: SmartBarXPView: Screenshots

SpyderBarFrom the makers of StyleXP, this sidebar is highly responsive, intuitive, and skinnable. Although feature packed, it remains lightweight with an executable size of just 1 MB. It is the ONLY user interface of its kind (more on this below). You can dock, undock, and even throw around panels.Download: SpyderBarView: Screenshots

Codename: DashboardCodename: Dashboard is an application that docks to the side of your screen and acts as a host for interchangeable components. Through these components, you can have access to any information you want on your screen, all the time.Download: Codename: Dashboard 2.0View: Screenshot

Google Desktop SidebarIt surely doesn't look like Vista sidebar but if we are talking about the sidebars then this program should be mentioned here. Google Desktop supports gadgets now. Gadgets are mini-applications which can be anything from games to search tools to media players, and they can be any shape and size use a weather globe to show you the latest forecast.Download: Google DesktopView: Screenshot

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I just realised that and removed the down tag from there Can you let us know about the progress of this sidebar. I think it is the proper time to release it because people seem to be anxious about vista now a days

I just realised that and removed the down tag from there Can you let us know about the progress of this sidebar. I think it is the proper time to release it because people seem to be anxious about vista now a days

realy i liked the smartbar xp the most to bad its never finished to bad it was awesome sidebar lolbut soon the final version of my sidebar wil be released and i need beta testers loli need people to sign up lol

a Vista Sidebar for Windows XP
thoosje has released a new version of his nice looking sidebar for Windows XP users which looks very similar to Vista's sidebar.

It looks great, runs great. There is a minor fault i find with the program, which in my opinion don't think is the sidebar but my internet security.

Once i run it, and customize it to my liking, and restart xp my firewall says it is trying to connect to the internet. I select allows all traffic by this application. (by the way my internet security is bitdefender). And if find that the sidebar went back to the default stage. ???

could anyone help me out here.

tried the other sidebars, but don't find it as appealing as the first one.